Suspender



J. M. COHEN Jan. 2, 1940.

SUSPENDER Filed Aug. 16, 1939 A TTORNEY atented Jan. 2, 1940 ITED STATES ATENT FFiCE 3 Claims.

The object of the present invention is to provide a suspender construction for trousers and the like embodying an improvement in the form of the button-hole tabs which are adjustably carried upon the elastic webbing elements which pass over the shoulders of the wearer, and an improvementin the means of adjusting the said tabs relatively to the elastic webbing.

By means of my construction, an attractive combination is provided which is of very low cost and with an adequate adjustment characteristic and without the necessity of the usual slide and adjustable elements.

1 The invention will be described with reference to accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a view in elevation, showing an embodiment of the invention.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of two of the buttoning tabs constructed from a single length of webbing.

Figure 3 is an enlarged longitudinal section on the line 33, Figure 1.

Figure 4 is an enlarged longitudinal section on the line 4-4, Figure 1, showing only one of the snap fastener elements.

Referring to the drawing, it will be seen that the shoulder strap webbing elements I, preferably constructed of elastic webbing, are connected by stitching indicated by the dotted lines 2m to a rear connecting piece 2 (or opposed pieces as customary in the art), the stitching also securing to the connector a rearwardly extending piece of webbing 3.

As illustrated in Figure 3, each end of the strap elements l and 3 has applied thereto a longitudinally extending non-extensible strip 3 and the elastic webbing reinforced by said strip receives a plurality of snap fastener elements indicated at 5, which elements are preferably socket members.

The area of the combined elastic webbing and reinforcing strip which carries the members 5 is turned back upon itself so as to conceal the heads of the socket members and the turned back section stitched down as by a plurality of lines of stitching at Ix. Any desired number of socket members may be employed, three of such mem bers being shown for the members i, and two for the rearwardly extending member 3.

50 Each pair of buttoning tabs is formed of a strip of non-elastic webbing folded centrally with two diagonally extending folds at a, Figure 2,

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thus forming the tabs 6 which cross each other below the lines of fold a. The buttoning tab structure is held in its folded form by a male snap fastener member 7 adapted to snap into any one of the socket members 5.

As shown with respect to the buttoning tabs applied to the rear member 3 of the suspenders, the folds of each set of tabs may be held in place by two snap fasteners elements I which increase the length and adjustment of the tabs 0 relative to the suspender elements which carry them, although one snap fastener element will generally suffice.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, being as follows:

1. A suspender comprising two shoulder strap elements of elastic webbing, one end of each shoulder strap element being stitched to a connecting member, a relatively short strip of Webbing secured to said connecting member, a longitudinally, extending non-elastic strip stitched to each end section of the shoulder strap webbing element, a plurality of snap fastener elements projected through said end sections and non-extensible strips bonding each shoulder strap element to its non-extensible strip, and a pair of buttoning tabs adapted to be secured to any one of the snap fastener elements carried by a shoulder strap webbing element, each pair of button- 80 ing tabs being formed of a continuous strip of nonelastic webbing folded centrally with two diagonally extending folds, forming two tabs which cross each other below the lines of folds, a snap fastener element passing through the folds and holding them together, the last named snap fastener element being adapted to co-act with any one of the snap fastener elements held by the end section of a shoulder strap webbing element, and a trouser connection carried by said relatively 40 short strip of webbing.

2. A suspender constructed in accordance with claim 1, in which each free end section of shoulder strap webbing elements is folded back upon itself to cover one face of each snap fastener member carried by said shoulder strap element.

3. A suspender constructed in accordance with claim 1, in combination with a pair of buttoning tabs formed as described in said claim, and in combination with a second snap fastener element projected through the crossed tabs.

JACOB M. COHEN.

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